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    Sister Beneath the Sheet

    By Gillian Linscott

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    It’s springtime in Biarritz, France – and playtime for Edwardian society. But the fashionable crowd is shaken by the suicide of a high-class prostitute, Topaz Brown, who has left her fortune to England’s suffragette movement. Suffragette Nell Bray is sent to Biarritz to protect the money and keep its embarrassing source private. She gets more than she bargained for, however, when she learns that Topaz’s death may not have been suicide at all. She’s also busy tracking one of her wilder suffragette sisters, who arrives unexpectedly in town with a gun in her bag and her sights set on an MP. As her investigation takes her through Biarritz’s tawdry slums and elegant boulevards, Nell may have taken on more than she can handle.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSevern House Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2013
    ISBN9781448300884
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    Gillian Linscott

    Gillian Linscott worked as a journalist for the Guardian and the BBC before turning to full-time crime writing. Her novels featuring the suffragette detective Nell Bray have won her the CWA/Ellis Peters Historical Dagger 2000 and the Herodotus Award for Best International Historical Mystery Novel. Her books include The Perfect Daughter and Dead Man Riding.

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    • 3/5
      A really good murder mystery. A dead prostitute leaves a suffragette society most of her fortune. The society sends a representative to find out why--and she, in turn, becomes intrigued by the dead woman and seeks to discover the truth about her death. I was really impressed by the historical accuracy--most writers are content to get the clothes and vehicles right, but Linscott concerns herself with the attitudes and unwritten politics of the time as well.
    • 4/5
      Nell Bray is a committed suffragette who is sent to Biarritz to investigate a rumour that the suffragettes have been left the fortune of a high-class prostitute. She has to try to be as discrete as possible but as she starts asking questions she finds herself with more questions rather than answers and she feels a need to find the answers.It's an interesting look at Edwardian France and the English who visited. The class divides are very much evident and you can see the issues some people would have with some of what was going on. Occasionally some of the characters did blur for me without being distinct and I had to re-read sections to make sure I was following the right character.Irritatingly a reader took it upon themselves to edit the copy I read, in parts, often not to any great merit.